Meals Quotes - Page 7

• The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Fowl, Spit, Prettiest

  Wallace Fowlie, Arthur Rimbaud (1966). “Rimbaud”

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• You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated theological systems and yet not be a person who sees. It’s one thing to sing about God and recite quotes about God and invoke God’s name; it’s another be aware of the presence in every taste, touch, sound, and embrace. With Jesus, what we see again and again is that it’s never just a person, or just a meal, or just an event, because there’s always more going on just below the surface.

  Rob Bell

  Religious, Jesus, Names

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• No. I took this job in self-defense. Quain burns everything. Belen thinks jerky is all we need to survive. Flea's idea of a good meal is something that hasn't been in a garbage can first. And Kerrick poisoned us-' 'Not on purpose,' Kerrick said. 'The meat looked done.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Jobs, Thinking, Self

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• Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Holiday, Calling, Midst

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.51, SCM Press

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• He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Perfectly Good, Ruined, Disappointed

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.161, Scholastic Inc.

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• Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Good Life, Prayer

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• And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Animal, Years

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• Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  House, Ego, Etcetera

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• The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wine, Vegetables, Jam

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• The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Museums, Self, Intellectual

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• Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Children, Home, Men

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• Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Fire, Clothes

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• Now filet mignon come with every meal. I swear to God that I'm so high, Feel like i am going up a hill.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Swear To God, Hills

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• Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, India, Stories

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1571, Manonmani Publishers

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• I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fullness of it solid between your teeth, like a good meal that you have tasted and cherished and look back in your mind to eat again.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Essence, Mind, Wish

  RICHARD LLEWELLYN (1967). “HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY”

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• It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.

  Albert Camus

  Friday, Monday, Sleep

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wine, Quality, Lifestyle

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• He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.

  Brother Lawrence

  Heart, Past, Thinking

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• If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.

  Leon Uris

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Memories

  Leon Uris (1976). “Trinity”, Doubleday Books

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• The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.

  Ezra Pound

  Wall, Emotional, Garden

  'The Garden' (1916)

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• No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?

  Eoin Colfer

  Children, Order, Doubt

  Eoin Colfer (2005). “Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3”, Miramax

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• And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble, like coming to the police station, and he looks after me by cooking meals for me, and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me.

  Mark Haddon

  Father, Love You, Mean

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• This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Time, Kings, Flower

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Food is, for me, for everybody, a very sexual thing and I think I realised that quite early on. I still cannot exaggerate how just putting a meal in front of somebody is really more of a buzz for me than anything. And I mean anything. Maybe that goes back to trying to please my dad, I don't know. It's like parenting in a way I suppose.

  Nigel Slater

  Dad, Mean, Thinking

  "While Other Boys in His Class Were Reading Shoot! Nigel Subscribed to Cordon Bleu Magazine". www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2003.

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• I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest in someone's home. Carlos and I went to my beach house.

  Martha Graham

  Beach, Home, Sight

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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